It was no secret Eddie Lacy was overweight playing for the Green Bay Packers last season. Reportedly playing in the 260’s, Lacy was well above his 234 pound listed weight in media guides. Needless to say, Lacy took the shots thrown from head coach Mike McCarthy, fans and the media and decided he was going to do something about his weight. Working out on the P90x program with trainer and founder of the program Tony Horton, Lacy shredded a reported 15-18 pounds. But weight loss wasn’t the goal according to Horton—it was improving Lacy’s health.
Via ESPN:
“We didn’t want to do that,” Horton told the newspaper. “We wanted to take all the pressure off. We just wanted to have a good time, work really hard and eat clean and drink plenty of water. I had him on some supplements that he had never done. He needed some Vitamin D supplements. We just kind of checked what he needed, and he was low on Vitamin D and fiber. He had never taken a supplement before, ever.”
Lacy turned to Horton after coach Mike McCarthy called out his star running back after last season’s disappointing performance. McCarthy said Lacy “cannot play at the weight he was at [last] year.”
“We didn’t talk about it that much,” Horton said. “I don’t know what motivated him from day to day. He understood based on comments that the coach made, based on comments that his supporters and the people around him were saying, knowing that this is the last year of his contract. He knew what was at stake.”
